LIVEDIFFERENCE presents : Professor Danielle Allen Beyond Integration: Building a Connected Society

LIVEDIFFERENCE presents:

Professor Danielle Allen Beyond Integration: Building a

Connected SocietyLIVEDIFFERENCE.GROUP.SHEF.AC.UK

D A N I E L L E S . A L L E N - I N S T I T U T E F O R A D V A N C E D S T U D Y

BEYOND INTEGRATIONBUILDING A CONNECTED SOCIETY

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1. A word about democracy• The purpose of democracy is to empower individual citizens and give them

sufficient control over their lives to protect themselves from domination. In its ideal form, democracies empower each and all such that none can dominate any of the others, nor any one group, another group of citizens.

• But political equality is not merely freedom from domination. The best way to avoid being dominated is to help build the world in which one lives. The point of political equality is not merely to secure spaces free from domination but also to engage all members of a community equally in the work of creating and constantly re-creating that community. Political equality is equal political empowerment.

• Ideally, if political equality exists, citizens become co-creators of their shared world. Freedom from domination and the opportunity for co-creation maximize the space available for individual and collective flourishing.

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2. A few words about equalities

Political

Equality

Social Equality

Economic Justice

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Political

Equality

Social Equality

Mode of distributing resources compatible with full and effective

political participation

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Political

Equality

Social Equality

Increase levels of educationStrengthen unions

Rebuild manufacturing and supply chain jobsDevelop social equality

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Political Equality

A Connected Society

ECONOMIC JUSTICE:Increase levels of education

Strengthen unionsRebuild manufacturing and supply chain jobs

Develop social equality

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Political Equality

Connected institutions & servicesA science of association

An art of association

ECONOMIC JUSTICE:Increase levels of education

Strengthen unionsRebuild manufacturing and supply chain jobs


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SOCIAL EQUALITY:Connected

institutions & servicesA science of association


ECONOMIC

JUSTICE:Increase levels of education

Strengthen unionsRebuild

manufacturing and

supply chain

jobs


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SOCIAL EQUALITY:Connected

institutions & servicesA science of association


ECONOMIC

JUSTICE:Increase levels of education

Strengthen unionsRebuild

manufacturing and

supply chain

jobs


1. Freedom from domination 2. Egalitarian access to instrument of government

3. Epistemic egalitarianism4. Citizenly reciprocity

5. Co-creation/co-ownership

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3. A discussion of connectedness

A connected society

Economic Justice

Cultivating social networks and social relations to support economic justice and political equality

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ON SOCIAL CAPITAL• Pierre Bourdieu (1980): Socially useful contacts possessed

by individuals; inegalitarian phenomenon. Micro analysis.

• James Coleman (1988): Socially valuable resources possessed by individuals deriving from social networks: trust, access to information, participation in effective sanctioning structures; can be inegalitarian or egalitarian. Micro analysis.

• Robert Putnam (1993): Socially valuable features of groups--for instance, high levels of trust and habits of cooperation-- deriving from the social networks internal to them. Macro analysis. Putnam claims this kind of social capital is democracy-supporting.

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EGALITARIAN SOCIAL CAPITAL

• In distinguishing between egalitarian and inegalitarian social capital or between democratic and non-democratic social capital, the relative proportion of bonding and bridging ties within the relevant community is critical.

• Associational ecologies that place more emphasis on bridging relationships tend also to be more democratic and more egalitarian.

• It is for this reason that a connected society emphasizes specifically bridging ties.

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BEYOND INTEGRATION

• Before and after social-network theory

• Community of communities

• Diversity and connectedness

PROBLEM

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Putnam 2007: “trade-off between diversity and community” can at best be “ameliorated.”

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R. PUTNAM, BOWLING ALONE, 2000

• Figure 8: Average Membership Rate in Thirty-two National Chapter-Based Associations, 1900-1997

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R. PUTNAM, BOWLING ALONE, 2000

Figure 79: Guesstimated Explanation for Civic Disengagement, 1965-2000

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A CHANGED LAW OF ASSOCIATION• Jaycees case, 1974-1984; Rotary case 1978 - 1987

• “the State’s compelling interests in eliminating discrimination against women and in assuring them equal access to public accommodations. . . extends to the acquisition of leadership skills and business contacts, as well as tangible goods and services” (U.S. Supreme Court Case, Rotary International 481 U.S. 537 [1987]: 548-549, emphasis added).

• The Court as a whole importantly interpreted the right to equal protection and non-discrimination to apply to the distribution of social capital. The Court thus conceptually distinguished between inegalitarian and egalitarian distributions of social capital, and endorsed the latter as the constitutionally acceptable variant.

A CHALLENGE

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SCIENCE AND ART OF ASSOCIATION

A. Tocqueville, Democracy in America, B. Vol. II, Part 2, ch. 5

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Faced fundamental legal Challenge (% decline from membership

peak to 1997)

Did not face fundamental legal challenge (% decline from

membership peak to 1997)

American Association of University Women (-84%)

American Bowling Congress (-72%)

B’nai B’rith (-75%)

Business and Professional women (-89%)

Eagles (-72%)

Eastern Star, Order of the (-73%)

Elks (-46%)

General Federation of Women’s Clubs (-84%)

Hadassah (-15%)

Jaycees (-58%)

Kiwanis (-42%)

League of Women Voters (-61%)

Lions (-58%)

Masons (-71%)

Moose (male members) (-35%)

Moose (women members) (-3%)

Odd Fellows (-94%)

Optimists (-24%)

Parent-Teacher Association (-60%)

Rotary (-25%)

Shriners (-59%)

Women’s Bowling Congress (-66%)

Women’s Christian Temperance Union

(-96%)

Gender integrated

NAACP (-46%)

4-H (-26%)

Grange (-79%)

Red Cross (volunteers) (-61%)

American Legion (-47%)

Mixed gender history

Veterans of Foreign Wars (-9%)

Gender segregated but legally sheltered

Boy and Girl Scout adult leaders (-18%)

Boy Scouts (-5%)

Girl Scouts (-15%)

Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts combined (-8%)

Knights of Columbus (-6%)

Bold= membership decline of less than 10% over period, in

contrast to group median of 58%.

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Median membership decline for whole group of associations: 58%

Median membership decline for groups already gender integrated or legally protected: 18%

Median membership decline for groups already gender integrated or legally protected (with agricultural groups and NAACP removed): 12%

Single Success Story: Veterans of Foreign Wars

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ART OF ASSOCIATION• Learning to bridge (D. Allen, Talking to Strangers)“political friendship”

• Learning to bond in ways that facilitate bridging:

“One can’t build the habits of political friendship, if one hasn’t previously built the kinds of habits of intimate friendship that would effectively support an openness to bridging relationships. In other words, two kinds of human development are necessary in contexts of intimate association: on the one hand, learning of the practices of non-domination and non-oppression (Young 1990, Pettit 1997, Allen 2004a, Anderson 2010) and, on the other, learning of receptivity to bridging relationships (Allen 2004a).”

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THE MATERIALS

• With regard to identifying practices of non-domination and non-oppression in associations of intimacy, we need to draw together scholarship in psychology and human development (e.g. Bromberg 2011) as well as in the sociology of learning (Levinson 2012, Laden 2013).

• With regard to receptivity to bridging, we need to draw on scholarship in interpretation studies, language learning theory, educational sociology, studies of organizing, and recognition. (e.g. Galison 1997); Suárez-Orozco & Suárez-Orozco 2013; Stout 2005, 2010, Moglen 2013, DuBois 1903, Young 1996, Ober 2008, Allen 2004b).

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THE FUTURE OF EQUALITY

SOCIAL EQUALITY:Connected institutions & servicesA science

and art of association

ECONOMIC JUSTICE

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